It took me a while to figure out the balance of my fstop and shutter speed. I was experimenting with a lot of these photos and I think I finally got the hang of it. I took this from a slightly birds eye view angle and placed the glasses facing the sun to get a nice shadow.
My cat Tejina decides to help me with my new camera. This really shows how shallow a depth of field you can get on an SLR, even with an inexpensive lens, compared to a P&S camera.